THIS ARTICLE is from the SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE - enough said!
Yeah, OK. Consider the source of this article ...
*****I Absolutely Swear by all that’s holy****
I will NEVER cast a vote for, or support in ANY way,
a republican party that ever puts any of these “Repubs” in front of me ever again,,,if they came out for Obama this year.
Im talking vandetta forever,,, the way some seniors basically vote for FDR to this day. They’ll be my example of stick-to-it commitment.
RNC— ARE YOU LISTENING?
EXACTLY!
Let us show that we stand for fiscal integrity and sound money and above all for an end to deficit spending, with ultimate retirement of the national debt.
Let us also include a permanent limit on the percentage of the people’s earnings government can take without their consent.
Let our banner proclaim a genuine tax reform that will begin by simplifying the income tax so that workers can compute their obligation without having to employ legal help.
And let it provide indexing—adjusting the brackets to the cost of living—so that an increase in salary merely to keep pace with inflation does not move the taxpayer into a surtax bracket. Failure to provide this means an increase in government’s share and would make the worker worse off than he was before he got the raise.
Let our banner proclaim our belief in a free market as the greatest provider for the people.
Let us also call for an end to the nit-picking, the harassment and over-regulation of business and industry which restricts expansion and our ability to compete in world markets.
Let us explore ways to ward off socialism, not by increasing government’s coercive power, but by increasing participation by the people in the ownership of our industrial machine.
Our banner must recognize the responsibility of government to protect the law-abiding, holding those who commit misdeeds personally accountable.
And we must make it plain to international adventurers that our love of peace stops short of “peace at any price.” We will maintain whatever level of strength is necessary to preserve our free way of life.
A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.
I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view.
And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way.
Ronald Reagan, March 1, 1975
THIS IS TOTAL BULL and EVEN THE OBAMA INSIDERS are CONCERNED .... This is nothing more than a ploy to keep people home, guess what OBAMA PEOPLE, this will “NOT” Work.
MCCAIN/PALIN 2008!!!
My exact same thoughts — San Francisco?? No wonder!
"There's a great deal of discontent in the Republican party and among the intellectual, the conservative intellectual elite that has powered the Republican Party since Ronald Reagan."
We are just the yahoos that don't matter. According to Carolyn it's the 'intellectual elite' that decides who gets elected.
Powell may have been SoS but I never really considered him to be a Republican. As for Weld, Carlson etc, they're history, who cares ?
What is news, going largely unreported, is Palin's enormous drawing power at campaign stops. Have to think this will make a difference as state/local media cover them.
I read somewhere that Obama's camp has definitely noticed so we must expect even more negative stories about her. The latest tack seems to be she's "divisive" and "going rogue".